ALGERIA: Capture of the Chief

Of all the rebel commanders in Algeria, none
has given the French more trouble than handsome Yacef Saadi, the
29-year-old ex-baker who for nearly two years hcs been chief of the FLN
(Algerian National Liberation Front) in the city of Algiers. Within the
labyrinthine depths of Algiers' Casbah, Yacef and his mistress, an
Algerian law student named Zohra Drif, were uncrowned monarchs. Under
the very nose of French police and paratroopers, Yacef collected
"taxes," dispensed his own justice, and organized the bloody bombing
attacks of cafés and streets that have kept Algiers' French edgy for
months. Often spotted by...